Category Archives: GNU/Linux
PostgreSQL grants on all tables
As much as I love PostgreSQL, its system of managing user privileges is a pain in the ass. PostgreSQL has no equivalent to MySQL’s method of granting a privilege on all of the tables in a database, including tables that … Continue reading
If Plasma dies, here’s what to do
Every now and then, the Plasma desktop in KDE 4 crashes on me. Usually, it restarts itself. Sometimes, it doesn’t. If you’re cursed with the latter scenario, there’s an easy solution. Note: As avocadohead kindly mentioned in the comments, KDE … Continue reading
Matching Printable Characters
Who doesn’t love regular expressions? They’re fucking awesome. I use’em at least 10 times per day. Sometimes, there’re restrictions on what patterns you can use. I wanted to change a regex for validating passwords. Originally, it allowed letters, numbers, and … Continue reading
Displaying Your ViM Colour Scheme
I posted this mostly because I’m always forgetting it, and also because it’s a pain in the ass to search for on Google. I usually try “:echo g:colorscheme”, which fails miserably. If you’re playing around with colour schemes in ViM … Continue reading
When Gnome and Firefox Are Dead Slow
I’ve had Ubuntu Karmic Koala installed on my MacBook Pro Core2Duo for 2-3 weeks now. Almost everything’s been working perfectly. However, whenever I’d start a second Gnome session and run Firefox, the machine would slow to a crawl, and X’s … Continue reading
Copying Between GNU Screen buffers
GNU Screen is one of those tools that makes you think “How the %&@# did I live without this for so long?!” If you work on command lines regularly, GNU Screen is a must. In my desktop environment, I run … Continue reading
Linux Mint Is Weird
I have a MacBook Pro. I bought it back in 2007 when I was living in Australia. It’s awesome. I love it, especially the keyboard. Unfortunately, Mac OS X has pissed me off way too many times. So I jumped … Continue reading
Idiosynchracy With Apache Rewrites
Did you know that it’s not possible to apply an Apache rewrite condition to multiple rewrite rules? I thought this would work, but requests from every IP address were being redirected: RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^10.0.10.10$ RewriteRule ^uploads/(.*)$ /wp-content/uploads/$1 RewriteRule (.*) http://deadorange.com/blog$1 … Continue reading
Importing large WordPress blogs
I just finished importing a WordPress blog with >1500 posts into a different WordPress blog. Importing the posts succeeded, but the last few steps at the end failed, like recalculating how many posts are in each category. This happened because … Continue reading
Ruby in Etch
As some of you may know, Ruby and Debian’s ways of packaging software go together like Darwin and religious zealots…as in, they don’t. So how should you install Ruby when using Debian Stable? How do you stay up-to-date with new … Continue reading